Sudden love is latest cured.
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!